The Burial at Thebes

  • The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
    The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
    By Sophocles

    Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security.

  • The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
    The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
    By Seamus Heaney

    Enraged, Creon condemns her to death, and his soldiers wall her up in a tomb. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney exposes the darkness and the humanity in Sophocles' masterpiece, and inks it with his own modern and masterly touch.

  • The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles' Antigone
    By Sophocles, Seamus Heaney

    Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply ...

  • The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles' Antigone
    The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles' Antigone
    By Seamus Heaney

    In The Burial at Thebes, a luminous and poetic version of Sophocles' Antigone, a young woman defies the law of the king with violent and tragic consequences.Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's The Burial at Thebes explores the dangers of pride ...

  • The Burial at Thebes: The Play
    By Seamus Heaney

    The Burial at Thebes: The Play